Alabama Bird Day BookDepartment of Game and Fish, 1915 |
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A. W. MUMFORD Alabama American AMERICAN COOT animal marriage animals Audubon BALTIMORE ORIOLE Bank Swallow BARN OWL beauties Bird Day Bird Guide Blackbird blue bluebird breast bright brown called conservation COOT COPYRIGHT 1900 deer Dowitcher downy dream Eagle eggs eyes feathers fish flight Florida Flycatcher forests Gadwall Game Birds garden of roses golden grass gray green GROSBEAK ground happy Hawk heart Heron hunt inches in length insects kill King Rail little minister Long-billed Dowitcher Lullaby MARBLED GODWIT marshes mate meadow nature nest never night nighthawk northern o'er orchard orioles OVEN-BIRD perch pine Plover pumpkin pie Rail RED-TAILED HAWK Redpoll robin Sandpiper season sing snipe song southern Canada Sparrow species spring summer Swallow sweet tail thee thou throat Thrush tree United Vireo warble Warbler weevil whistle wild pigeon WILD TURKEY wing winter WOOD DUCK Woodpecker worm Wren yellow-bellied sapsucker
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Page 40 - There is a Power whose care teaches thy way along that pathless coast, the desert and illimitable air — lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, at that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, though the dark night is near.
Page 40 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 65 - Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers And wake the purple year ! The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of Spring : While, whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs thro" the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling.
Page 65 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With, me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease...
Page 10 - Summer is coming, summer is coming. I know it, I know it, I know it. Light again, leaf again, life again, love again,
Page 27 - I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Page 27 - I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses ; I linger by my shingly bars ; I loiter round my cresses ; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go on forever.
Page 9 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Page 27 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers.
Page 27 - I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows: I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses: I linger by my shingly bars: I loiter round my cresses: And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river. For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.